Re: [PATCH] Put the BUG __FILE__ and __LINE__ info out of line

[Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 03:30:12AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> >But no out of line section. So overall it's smaller, although the cache 
> >footprint
> >is 2 bytes larger. But then is 2 bytes larger really an issue? We don't 
> >have
> >_that_ many BUGs anyways.
> >  
> 
> I think the out of line section is a feature; no point in crufting up 
> the icache with BUG gunk, especially since a number of them are on 
> fairly hot paths.

It's 10 bytes per BUG. 

> 
> >I'll port the x86-64 way over to i386
> 
> It's neat, and it would solve my immediate problem, but I think my way 
> is actually better.

Your way will be even bigger because we would need to add
dwarf2 annotation to the out of line code.

-Andi
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